🔢 Honoring the great Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata 🇮🇳, who gave one of the earliest accurate approximations of π (Pi), on International Pi Day – March 14 🥧.

Celebrating the brilliance that shaped mathematics and astronomy ✨

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#EZTax #Aryabhata #PiDay #MathHistory

Kanem-Bornu Empire mastered trade, taxation & record-keeping, using math for counting goods, livestock & tribute. Early accounting systems laid foundations for modern finance & spreadsheets. #KanemBornu #MathHistory #Accounting #AfricanInnovation #Finance #DataSystems #Africa

This was a fun piece to write! I learnt quite a bit about the evolution of #math symbols while working on it. Thank you Alex Bellos, Amir Alexander, Kate Kitagawa, Raul Rojas & @sarah-hart.bsky.social for the nice conversations.

#algebra #MathHistory #geometry

During a mosque tour, I learned that each Arabic numeral is said to reflect the number of angles in its shape.
Numbers as geometry.

#MathHistory
#IslamicArt
#TokyoCamii

Stela C One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in…

#mathhistory, Olmec culture and some sweet modular arithmetic from @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/s...

In 1986, many mathematics teachers strongly opposed bringing calculators into classrooms, fearing students would become too dependent on machines.

#Education #MathHistory #Teachers #ArithmeticSkills #EdTech #ClassroomLearning

Leonhard Euler went blind… and wrote 500 more math papers.

Math has never been about perfect conditions.
It’s about figuring things out.
www.mathisfigureoutable.com/blog/leonhar...
#MathIsFigureOutAble #MathHistory #GrowthMindset #MathTeachers

In white text on a blue background with black equations from Cox's thesis: Elbert F. Cox, PhD (1895-1969). Dr. Cox was the first Black person in the world to receive a doctorate for his thesis Polynomial solutions of difference equation af(x+1) + bf(x) = phi(x). In the center is a class portrait from Cornell University in black and white of Elbert F. Cox: a young Black man turned 3/4 in profile in graduation robe and cap in a white chair. At the bottom is a red, yellow, and green banner reading in black font: Black History Month as well as the IPB logo.

We honor Dr. Elbert Cox's achievement as the first Black person in the world to receive a doctorate in mathematics. He was also the first African-American inducted to the American Mathematical Society. Dr. Cox was a WWI veteran.

#blackexcellence #mathhistory #history #math #BlackHistoryMonth2026

I'm excited to be presenting at noon w/my daughter on amazing #civilRights pioneer Anna Julia Cooper - trained in math. We're presenting at the City of Raleigh Museum. It was fun delving into 19th & early 20th century math pedagogy & of course learning more re: AJC! #mtbos #iteachmath #mathhistory

#MathMonday Today is the birthday of János Bolyai (b. Dec 15, 1802), one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. Bolyai showed that by rethinking Euclid’s parallel postulate, you can create a whole new geometry

Geometry isn’t just lines and angles, it’s about questioning
#MathHistory #Geometry

Zeroing in on the Margins: A Brief History of Algebra Explore the history of algebra, from ancient problems to modern math, by zeroing in on the margins. Discover the story behind the equations.

Ever wonder where algebra really came from?

Zeroing In On The Margins breaks down the fascinating history behind the symbols, ideas, and discoveries that shaped modern math.

👉 Read more: www.edguerrier.net/zeroing-in-o...

#MathHistory #Algebra #STEM #LearningJourney #CuriousMind

Typing Monkeys More observations stimulated by John Barrows book,  "One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know."    Everybody has he...

Pat Bellew writing about the storied history of the infinite monkeys on typewriters. Galileo, Kepler, Swift and more! pballew.blogspot.com/2025/11/typi... #mathhistory

Slightly surprised that I heard about this investigation of mathematicians & blackboards from someone other than @mbarany.com.

(Although in fairness, this @sciam.bsky.social piece--and the @pnas.org article it discusses--are more focused on #CogSci than #MathHistory...)

#histSTM #psychology 🗃️📜

Wolfgang Rautenberg, a German mathematician (1936-2011), was mentored by Alfred Schroeter—a connection that shaped his foundational work in logic. Who inspired your intellectual journey? (Q87243) #MathHistory #TeacherStudentLegacy

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My book 'Mastering Modern Time Series Forecasting : A Comprehensive Guide to Statistical, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Models in Python' is on Early Access ->
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#DataScience #SignalProcessing #TimeSeries #NorbertWiener #WWII #Forecasting #MathHistory #AI

An Optimum Nonlinear Code* ALAN W. ~ORDSTROSI United Township High School, East Moline, Illinois 612~ A N D JOHN P. ROBINSON Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 592~0 A systematic nonlinear code having length 15, minimum distance 5, and 256 code words is given in Boolean form. This is the maximum possible number of words for length 15 and distance 5. The distance spectrum of all pairs of code words is an exact multiple of the weight spectrum of the code words.

How many of you published a novel mathematical result while you were in high school?

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#MathHistory

The Hindu-Arabic Numeral System: How Fibonacci’s ‘New Math’ Revolutionized European Commerce "Explore how Fibonacci's introduction of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system transformed medieval European commerce and science, overcoming Roman numeral limitations."

From Roman Tally to Global Trade: The Unseen Revolution of Numbers in Medieval Europe
#HinduArabicNumerals #Fibonacci #MathHistory #MedievalEurope #FactRage #FactRageNews

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See how fractals forever changed math and science Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

See how fractals forever changed math and science #Science #Mathematics #Fractals #MathHistory #ScientificDiscovery

When @wilwheaton.net & @hntdove.bsky.social share the same #TomLehrer story, you know that it will be worth reading!

(Thanks for providing this glimpse into Lehrer’s work at the #NSA, @opalescentopal.bsky.social!)

#Lobachevsky #MathHistory

शून्य की कहानी: गणित का क्रांतिकारी आविष्कार शून्य की रोमांचक कहानी: भारत का क्रांतिकारी आविष्कार जिसने गणित बदला। पढ़ें इतिहास और प्रभाव! #शून्य #भारतीयगणित

शून्य की कहानी: गणित का क्रांतिकारी आविष्कार
www.newsfeedindia.in/2025/07/shun...
#शून्य #भारतीयगणित #गणितकाइतिहास #शून्यकाक्रांति #IndianMathematics #HistoryOfZero #MathLovers #भारतीयसंस्कृति #शिक्षा #Aryabhata #Brahmagupta #MathHistory #IndianHeritage #गणित #ZeroHistory

Reading from the Wiley Series on probability today, it’s technical, but kind of fascinating.
Now I’m curious about the people behind the theorems. Who were they? What were they solving?
Math history feels like this quiet backstory no one tells us.
#MathHistory #WileySeries #Probability #CuriousMind

Note that the headline clearly comes down on the invent side of the invent/discovered debate.
#MathHistory
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